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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
heteronym is a noun meaning "two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation". It carries one recorded sense.
two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation
“the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heteronym come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.